Key: F
Introduction: F
C
F
Ab
F
F
C
F
There's a ship lies rigged and ready in the harbor
F
Bb
Tomorrow for Old England she sails
Bb
Far away from your land of endless sunshine
Bb
G
C
To my land full of rainy skies and gales
F
C
F
And I shall be aboard that ship tomorrow
F
Bb
Though my heart is full of tears at this farewell
G
C
A
D
G
C
For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly
G
C
F
D
More dearly than the spoken word can tell
G
C
A
D
G
C
For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly
G
C
F
C
F
C
F
More dearly than the spoken word can tell
verse 2
F
C
F
I've heard there's a wicked war a-blazing
F
Bb
And the taste of war I know so very well
Bb
Even now I see that foreign flag a-raising
Bb
G
C
Their guns on fire as we sail into Hell
F
C
F
I have no fear of death, it brings no sorrow
F
Bb
But how bitter will be this last farewell
G
C
A
D
G
C
For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly
G
C
F
D
More dearly than the spoken word can tell
G
C
A
D
G
C
For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly
G
C
F
C
F
C
F
More dearly than the spoken word can tell
verse 3
F
C
F
Though death and darkness gather all about me
F
Bb
And my ship be torn apart upon the seas
Bb
I shall smell again the fragrance of these islands
Bb
G
C
And the heaving waves that brought me once to thee
F
C
F
And should I return safe home again to England
F
Ab
I shall watch the English mist roll through the Dale
G
C
A
D
G
C
For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly
G
C
F
D
More dearly than the spoken word can tell
G
C
A
D
G
C
For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly
G
C
F
C
F
Ab
F
More dearly than the spoken word can tell